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T. H. STAGKHOUSE. FASTENING 11mm FOR GUPFS, am.

No. 593,499. I Patented Nov. 9,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

THOMAS H. STAOKHOUSE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CLIFFORD S. FOX, OF SAME PLACE.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR CUFFS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,499, dated November 9, 1897. 1

Application filed March 13, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. STACK- HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,- have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Cuffs and Analogous Articles, of which the follow-. ing is a specification.

My invention has relation to a fastening device or button for cuffs or similar articles, and in such connection it relates particularly to the construction and arrangement of the members of such a fastening device or button. v

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a fastening device or button for cuffs and analogous articles, said device or button being simple in construction and operation and adapted to be easily and readily connected with or removed from the cuff or other article; second, to provide afastening device for cuffs and analogous articles comprising a button having two or more loops or folds and a connecting link or bar adapted. to slide in said loops'or folds and to be held in one of .said loops or folds when the button is in operative position, and, third, to provide a fastening device for cuffs and analogous articles comprising a button having a spring-retaining eye and an end loop and a connecting link or bar adapted to slide in the end loop and to be held in the spring-retaining eye of the button when the button is in operative position with respect to the end.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a fastening device for cuffs and analogous articles constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the preferred form of my improved link-button. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the position which the separate parts thereof assume in the process of connecting the same with a cuff or other Serial No. 627,282. (No model.)

article; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views similar to Fig. 2, showing modified forms of construction of the device of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, a represents one of the buttons of the fastening device, which,

as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, consists of a link formed from a single strip of metal or wire and having preferably the end loop or loops at and the central spring-eye a for a purpose hereinafter described. The eye (0 is formed, preferably, by a double twisting of both strands of the wire, as shown at a in Figs. 1 and 2, although it may also be formed by simply bending one strand upward, as shown at a in Fig. 3, or by a single twisting of both strands and a bending of one strand upward, as shown at a in Fig. 4, the object in each case being to form an eye a which can only communicate with an end loop or end loops a by untwisting or forcing apart the strands of the button. To the button a is secured a connecting link or bar I), which is adapted to slide on the wire or strip forming the link and to' enter either the springeye of, as shown in Fig. 1, or an end loop a, as shown at the left of Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5.

The eye a is normally held closed by the spring tension or resiliency of the wire at the point of twisting or bending, and the link or bar I) can only enter the eye a .by forcingthe strands slightlyapart to permit the passage of the link or bar past the twist or bend at the eye. When the link or bar I) has once entered the eye a it is held therein until the strands are again forcibly separated to permit of the link or bar passing the twist at the eye.

In Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, the fastening device is shown as comprising two buttons a, similarly provided with a retaining-eye a and a bar or series of links 5, connecting the two buttons together.

In the form shown in Fig. 5 only one of the buttons is used, while the other button is replaced by a ball d, the ball and button being united by the connecting link or bar Z2.

My improved fastening device is simple in construction and operation and is also comparatively inexpensive, the expense thereof depending largely upon the material of which it is made, and it will be apparent that any number of connecting-links b may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages, and that one button only may be provided with the eye and that the button may have one loop a or more, as desired.

In operation the button a is first brought to the position indicated at the left of Fig. 2, with the link or barb disengaged from the eye a and resting in the loop a. The but ton may then be easily passed through the opening or buttonhole in the article, when it is again brought to the position shown at the left in Fig. 1, in which the link or bar 1) has been forced into the eye m in which position it will remain until it is desired to remove the fastening from the article, when the button is moved so that the link or barb will escape from the eye a and rest in the loop a.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In a fastening device for cuifs and analogous articles, a button having two or more loops or folds and a connecting link or bar adapted to slide in said loops or folds and to be held in one of said loops or folds when the button is in operative position, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a fastening device for cuffs and analogous articles, a button having a spring-retaining eye and an end loop, and a connecting link or bar adapted to slide in the end loop and to be held in said eye when the button is in operative position, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. In a fastening device for cufis and an alogous articles, a button formed of a single metallic strip or wire bent into substantially link form and having an end loop and a spring-retaining eye, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS H. STAOKHOUSE. Witnesses:

H. D. TATE, CLIFFORD S. Fox. 

